Human dignity and bioethics : essays commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : President's Council on Bioethics, 2008.
Description:xix, 555 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Bioethics.
Dignity.
Bioethics.
Dignity.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6694909
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Other authors / contributors:Schulman, Adam.
President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.)
Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
Notes:"March 2008."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Bioethics and the question of human dignity / Adam Schulman
  • Human dignity and respect for persons : a historical perspective on public bioethics / F. Daniel Davis
  • How to protect human dignity from science / Daniel C. Dennett
  • Human dignity and the mystery of the human soul / Robert P. Kraynak
  • Commentary on Kraynak / Daniel C. Dennett
  • Commentary on Dennett / Robert P. Kraynak
  • Commentary on Dennett / Alfonso Gómez-Lobo
  • Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective / Patricia S. Churchland
  • Commentary on Churchland / Gilbert Meilaender
  • Human uniqueness and human dignity : persons in nature and the nature of persons / Holmes Rolston III
  • Human dignity and the future of man / Charles Rubin
  • Dignity and enhancement / Nick Bostrom
  • Commentary on Bostrom / Charles Rubin
  • Human dignity and public discourse / Richard John Neuhaus
  • Modern and American dignity / Peter Augustine Lawler
  • Human dignity : exploring and explicating the Council's vision / Gilbert Meilaender
  • Commentary on Meilaender and Dennett / Peter Augustine Lawler
  • Commentary on Meilaender and Lawler / Diana Schaub
  • Defending human dignity / Leon R. Kass
  • Kant's concept of human dignity as a resource for bioethics / Susan M. Shell
  • Human dignity and political entitlements / Martha Nussbaum
  • Commentary on Nussbaum, Shell and Kass / Diana Schaub
  • The irreducibly religious character of human dignity / David Belernter
  • The nature and basis of human dignity / Patrick Lee, Robert P. George
  • Two arguements from human dignity / Paul Weithman
  • Dignity and bioethics : history, theory, and selected applications / Daniel P. Sulmasy
  • Human dignity and the seriously ill patient / Rebecca Dresser
  • The lived experience of human dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino.